Ayu will on this year kouhaku
 

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/kouhaku/


This is the sixth times that ayu on this show.
Is ayu going to sing CAROLS this time?

Here is what ayu sang in kouhaku
(1999) Boys and Girls
(2000) SEASONS
(2001) Dearest
(2002) Voyage
(2003) No way to say.


PS: this year also have Every little thing,aiko, Chemistry, 倉木麻衣, 上戸彩, BoA, and 中島美嘉 etc ....

Yay, they decided the lists already. Thanks for informing us. =)

Thanks for the info :D

Good to see Hirahara Ayaka making it there, and go Hitoto You! =)

Of course he'd use Nochiura Natsumi...-_-;;


And yay for Ayu I guess? Not that its suprising.

Thanks for the info :). But in 2002 year she performed Heartplace and Voyage ;). Maybe this time she also will sing two songs?

Here is a romanized list:


RED: Ishikawa Sayuri, Lee Jung Hyun, Ueto Aya, Every Little Thing, Otsuka Ai, Kawanaka Miyuki, Kuraki Mai, Kobayashi Sachiko, Sakamoto Fuyumi, Shimakura Chiyoko, Shimatani Hitomi, Tendo Yoshimi, DREAMS COME TRUE, Nakashima Mika, Nakamura Mitsuko, Nagayama Yoko, Natsukawa Rimi, Nochiura Natsumi, Hamasaki Ayumi, Hitoto You, Hirahara Ayaka, Fuji Ayako, BoA, Mizumori Kaori, Morning Musume, W, Moriyama Ryoko, Wada Akiko.


WHITE: Itsuki Hiroshi, w-inds., EXILE, ORANGE RANGE, Gackt, Kawaguchi Kyougo, Kishidan, Kitajima Saburo, CHEMISTERY, Gospellers, Sada Masashi, John Ken Nuzzo, TOKIO, Toba Ichiro, nobodyknows+, Hikawa Kiyoshi, Hirai Ken, Fuse Akira, Hosokawa Takashi, Horiuchi Takao, Porno Graffitti, Maekawa Kiyoshi, Matsudaira Ken, Mikawa Kenichi, Mori Shinichi, Yamamoto Jouji, Yuzu, Ryu.

There are really too many male enka singers :laugh

I think she'll sing CAROLS (¬.¬) I want a new song!!! lol

kool thx for the info...

i wish L ARc would also go with glay:(

Thank you of the info!

Let's hope for something new!

She will probably sing CAROLS.

how come m-flo is not there??? they are big this year~ and sell many records...

how do they determine who's on and who's not?

Baka ... I get Kouhaku with MS Super Live 2002 ... sorry :(.

thanks for the info.
i hope she sings something new!

Not surprising that she's on, but I've still yet to have watched any Kouhaku. =_= Except for catching a glimpse of the closing performance by SMAP in HK last year...

No B'z...? :(

Oh well go Ayu!

Ah man, these are the same boring songs she always performs. Let's hope she sings them well!

Thanks for the updates Eigoob and kotora.

The papers are reporting that SMAP and Namie Amuro were invited to perform but declined. Interesting...
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainm.../11/25/01.html
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainm.../11/25/06.html

I'd like to know that as well.

thx for the info

I heard that SMAP was hosting their own show and therefore not attending...

yay!! i saw hitomi shimatani and ai otsuka too!

Yeah...she WILL sing CAROLS

wat is kouhaku ??
anyway why is she always singing her ballads song ??
go ayu ~~

She did sing Boys & Girls once, that hardly constitutes as a ballad :rolleyes

because thay are her best songs. Every one of those songs she sang in Kouhaku has won that 'Song of the year' award, or something similar.

this Kouhaku doesn't sound that interesting anymore...there're way too many enka singers to appeal older audiences and alot of the biggest artists don't bother to show up. It's a wonder how Ayu shows up every single time. o.O

edit: Japanese site says SMAP, Seiko Matsuda, Mr.Children, Utada, Kou Shibasaki, Namie Amuro and SAS all declined the invitation.

Lee Jung Hyun is gonna be in it this year. That's great.

Once again, red team has a lot of really good performers, but will they win this time?

Yeah, white team has a lot of enka singers, but they do so much better than the female enka singers. I think that's why the white team has won for the past few years.

yay~~ looking forward to it~

thanks alot! ^^

What are enka singers? Pardon my ignorance, but I'm very curious.

maks me think this show is kinda...crappy. like, they can't get a lot of artists.

wonder why they declined?

i heard the viewership of kouhaku has gone down a lot ... is it like not getting as popular as last time... btw... i thought this time they did a voting by the viewers instead of chossing them from their saled record of the year!?!?!?!?! ~ but my source may not be true.... =\

OK it's an uneven match hehehe

a musical end-of-the year kind of battle of the sexes

wew.. nice news

sorry wotz kouhaku??

Interesting.. thanks for the info

Question- How did you find out the songs Ayu performed in the past Kouhaku awards? Did you search something on the website? I don't know Japanese and can't navigate the website, otherwise I'd like to find out what BoA has performed...

there are a lot of pics at ayuconnected (click the links below the pics for more htere). i'm just too lazy to post them. feel free soemone else.(looks like someone got hair extensions last night)

Cewl!!!!!! Thanks for info!!!!! :D

Moments for Kouhaku 2004
 

Moments -_-

Official confirmation: ayu will perform Moments

That's like all the FAMOUS and POPULAR stars that declined. Considering Utada and Mr. Children was ranked 1 and ranked 2 on the ORICON best selling album of the year, respectively.

I'm happy there will be another Moments performance.

good
"Moments"

yup it's Moments... adjust your satellite channel, know your timezone. Here's the schedule.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/kouhaku/

第55回NHK紅白歌合戦曲目決まる

おおみそか恒例の「第55回 NHK紅白歌合戦」
〔平成16年12月31日(金)午後7時30分~11時45分
(午後9時20分~30分　中断ニュース10分)、 　総合・BS2・ラジオ第1〕、
デジタル紅白歌合戦2004〔午後7時00分~11時27分(ニュース中断なし)
デジタルハイビジョン〕 の出場歌手の曲目が、次の通り決定した。

exactly...every year the big names all decline to appear on the show..
and to me the show doesn't attract me anymore...yea ayu still perform there but she is not the only one i like to she performance by..i want other genres or different artists..
ah well....better then nothing i guess...

THANK GAWD SHE'S NOT PERFORMING 'INSPIRE'! It would REALLY NOT FIT... as much as I LOVE 'INSPIRE' it would just not fit with the whole atmosphere of Kouhaku.

Thanks for the info!

Hopefully she'll sing Moments or CAROLS, the only 2004 track I think would be ok for this...

edit:I saw that it is Moments. Yay. :)

haha, the tabloids are FAKE then..

walking proud please

I don't think we want tabloids to be true now, do we? hehe

thanks for the info~~~~!!

thank you for the info ^^ I don't mind. She's gonna sing anyway!

thx for the info

I'm glad she's going to sing Moments :D

Thanks for da info! WOOT! Go, Ayu-chan!~ :D

Ayu will sing Moments on Kouhaku
 

Source: www.nhk.or.jo/kouhaku

the title is the news basically, nothing too great. I thought she planned to sing CAROLS or INSPIRE? Oh well, at least she sings Moments well during lives. :)

Wow, Moments is kind of old by now, why not something new?

oh great.. but i was hoping that she sing CAROLS.. :yes

I'm the same opinion. Why does she sing an "older" song of her?? I want to hear new songs of her new album, that would be great!

kool hope there will be a d/l of that live soon :yes

Still Moments...

I'm waiting for download to see this...

she should sing...about you...with a good preformance.

cant wait..
must see.. lol

thank you for the news!!!! i love she sings moments!!!! i loved the last year performance!